Science and religion have to go hand in hand with the mystery, because there's a certain point beyond which you say, "There are no answers."

You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.

Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down.

Jump, and you will find out how to unfold your wings as you fall.

Looking back over a lifetime, you see that love was the answer to everything.

Don't think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It's self-conscious, and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can't try to do things. You simply must do things.

Sometimes you just have to jump out the window and grow wings on the way down.

I know you've heard it a thousand times before. But it's true - hard work pays off. If you want to be good, you have to practice, practice, practice. If you don't love something, then don't do it.

Insanity is relative. It depends on who has who locked in what cage.

You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.

Write a short story every week. It's not possible to write 52 bad short stories in a row.

A lot of men wouldn't like being called a romantic. It's not macho enough.'Quite often men are fools.

The history of my life is the history of the struggle between an overwhelming urge to write and a combination of circumstances bent on keeping me from it.

New cells are born everyday and old cells die, but they have neither funerals nor birthdays.

Everyone's afraid of what they don't understand, " Ringil said quietly.

Everybody hates lies even the liars themselves

You keep learning how to let go and to live the life that you actually have, as opposed to the life you thought you were going to have.

I don't do much of anything consciously in writing - in poetry writing, anyway, prose usually being a different matter, of course.

Our ability to perceive the world around us seems so effortless that we tend to take it for granted.

I've been doing som jogging at home recently and every time I try the distance I end up beating his time with like three or four seconds.

It makes no difference where you go ...there you are.